Curriculum and Resources

Cornell Garden Based Learning: Inspiring, research-based gardening resources and professional development to support engaging, empowering, and relevant learning experiences for children, youth, adults, and communities.

Urban School Gardens, a presentation by Anne Scott at the Michigan Family Farms Conference on January 15, 2011.

Resource and Lesson Reviews by the Michigan Nutrition Network and C.S. Mott Group is a detailed data base of resources and lessons with reviews that are directly related to the youth farm stand project and nutrition education for children.

REAL School Gardens is a grassroots gardening program that helps children by supporting elementary school communities as they design, install and sustain outdoor classrooms (gardens).

School Garden Wizard has been created for America's K-12 school community through a partnership between the United States Botanic Garden and Chicago Botanic Garden offers guides for proposing a school garden to how to keep the garden growing.

The Learning Garden is one of the country’s largest and most successful school gardens and provides a model example of how school gardens can transform the lives of students and teachers and the environment of their community.

American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)- Nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities that recognizes that community gardening improves people’s quality of life in a variety of ways.

Funding

Funding & Grants

National Gardening Association school garden grants. The NGA's Kid Gardening website allows one to not only search for grants but provides tips to consider when hunting for grant fundings and a neat grant brainstorming worksheet!

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Michigan State University
303 Natural Resources Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1222